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Whats the difference between obamasucks.com, obamasucks.net, obamasucks.org, ... and obama.sucks? If you really want to prevent any possible domain which conta

by Aldo_MX 12y ago

Whats the difference between obamasucks.com, obamasucks.net, obamasucks.org, ... and obama.sucks? If you really want to prevent any possible domain which contains "obama" and "sucks" from being registered, there is a serious problem with freedom of speech. In the case of .porn, do you know you can submit your trademarks to the ICANN so they enforce them? ex. http://who.is/whois/barely.legal http://who.is/whois/barely.legal You can read more about protecting your trademarks here: http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/rpm/ http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/rpm/

fapjacks 12y ago
The process is long, arduous, and holds no guarantee for the victim of extortion that the case will be ruled in their favor. Some of these cases go on for years before a ruling is made, especially in the case of corporations or people that are not necessarily household names. And this is when the paperwork is in order. I think this pay-to-play DNS naming scheme is awful and clearly a rigged system supporting an oligarchy.
- Aldo_MX 12y ago
  What victim? What extortion? What are you talking about? You are just simply hating a process you hadn't even tried just for the sake of hating it. Even before the existence of gTLDs there were stupid legal cases because companies like Apple felt entitled over a domain like a.pl[1] If you own <trademark>, you are not entitled to own every <trademark>.<tld> combination unless <trademark>.<tld> is related to your business, taking the example from apple, you (Apple) may be entitled to own apple.computer and apple.inc, but not apple.groceries The ICANN guarantees (if you register your trademark) that only you (Apple) will be able to register apple.computer, apple.inc, and every other apple.<tld> closely related to your trademark, but if you don't want to register those domains, nobody else will be able to register them. Where is the extortion in that? Your arguments about extortions and supporting oligarchies are simply ideological fallacies. Selling domains is a business, and people with enough funds will profit from them whenever you like it or not. [1] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2409669,00.asp http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2409669,00.asp
  - fapjacks 12y ago
    >nobody else will be able to register them Except that they do, all the time, as I said previously. The extortions and the victims come in when this oligarchy of the wealthy registrars apply for and are approved a TLD which is for the obvious purpose of making everyone buy theirname.shithead to prevent a literal theirname.shithead website. This is extortion on a different level, and it's not hard to see it, so it's apparent you're denying the obvious in order to support your (incorrect) assertions.
    - fapjacks 12y ago
      http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2015/04/07/397886748/a-new-internet-domain-extortion-or-free-speech http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2015/04/07/397886...

by Aldo_MX 12y ago

fapjacks 12y ago

The process is long, arduous, and holds no guarantee for the victim of extortion that the case will be ruled in their favor. Some of these cases go on for years before a ruling is made, especially in the case of corporations or people that are not necessarily household names. And this is when the paperwork is in order. I think this pay-to-play DNS naming scheme is awful and clearly a rigged system supporting an oligarchy.

Aldo_MX 12y ago
What victim? What extortion? What are you talking about? You are just simply hating a process you hadn't even tried just for the sake of hating it. Even before the existence of gTLDs there were stupid legal cases because companies like Apple felt entitled over a domain like a.pl[1] If you own <trademark>, you are not entitled to own every <trademark>.<tld> combination unless <trademark>.<tld> is related to your business, taking the example from apple, you (Apple) may be entitled to own apple.computer and apple.inc, but not apple.groceries The ICANN guarantees (if you register your trademark) that only you (Apple) will be able to register apple.computer, apple.inc, and every other apple.<tld> closely related to your trademark, but if you don't want to register those domains, nobody else will be able to register them. Where is the extortion in that? Your arguments about extortions and supporting oligarchies are simply ideological fallacies. Selling domains is a business, and people with enough funds will profit from them whenever you like it or not. [1] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2409669,00.asp http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2409669,00.asp
- fapjacks 12y ago
  >nobody else will be able to register them Except that they do, all the time, as I said previously. The extortions and the victims come in when this oligarchy of the wealthy registrars apply for and are approved a TLD which is for the obvious purpose of making everyone buy theirname.shithead to prevent a literal theirname.shithead website. This is extortion on a different level, and it's not hard to see it, so it's apparent you're denying the obvious in order to support your (incorrect) assertions.
  - fapjacks 12y ago
    http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2015/04/07/397886748/a-new-internet-domain-extortion-or-free-speech http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2015/04/07/397886...